Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 607, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford.

FROM CARD: "16253-6. NOS. 16253-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIGS. 231-5; P. 318."Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."

Dall's original/field number is not listed for this object in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book. It is possible that this piece is original # 1167, which is listed in Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, and described there as stone charm, Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave.

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 612, collector is Lieut. Paddock, 2nd Artillery, U.S.A. and object is identified as "Labret formerly used by married women (Thlinkets), Sitka."

FROM CARD: "CRUDELY CARVED OF CEDAR WOOD, ONE FIGURE ON TOP OF OTHER. LOWER ONE A SEATED HUMAN FIGURE WITH A FACE CARVED ON THE BACK OF ITS HEAD, UPPER ONE STANDING ON TOP OF THE LOWER HOLDING A LIZARD-LIKE ANIMAL IN FRONT OF ITS TORSO, HAS A CROWN WITH UPSTANDING ELEMENTS."

FROM CARD: "16253-6. NOS. 16253-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIGS. 231-5; P. 318." A soapberry spoon.Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=515, retrieved 4-24-2012: Soapberry spoon. Soapberries are plentiful in the upriver territories of the Nisga'a and Gitxsan, who traditionally traded them to people on the coast. The berries were dried, whipped with water into foam, sweetened, and served with flat, beautifully carved hardwood spoons. During an 1858 feast that marked a high-ranking girl's initiation into the Destroyer secret society, her father ordered two large canoes to be carried into the house and filled with soapberries, frothed with black molasses. The guests were unable to finish the huge serving. "The Tsimshian word for soapberry is "as." You whip it up, add a little sugar, maybe some salmonberries or blueberries." - David Boxley (Tsimshian), 2009.

Per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 615, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford.Listed on page 46 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

FROM CARD: "16253-6. NOS. 16253-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIGS. 231-5; P. 318."Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."

FROM CARD: "DANCE RATTLE OR CLAPPER CARVED FROM WOOD IN THE SHAPE OF A SHORT THICK PADDLE, SPLIT LONGITUDINALLY ACROSS ITS WIDTH. ONE SECTION IS SOLID WITH ITS HANDLE; THE OTHER IS HINGED TO HANDLE WITH A NOTCH BONE SPRING. THE FLAT SIDES OF EACH SECTION ARE HOLLOWED OUT LIKE A SPOON. THE WOOD IS STAINED BLACK. ILLUS. IN BULLETIN 136, USNM, PL. 8-J, P. 121."